Posts Tagged: Los Angeles

By ShannonPerry Alexis Ohanian, the American Internet entrepreneur most famous for co-founding Reddit, has launched a crowdfund campaign to fight the Federal Communications Commission’s proposed “fast lanes” – superior channels that companies can purchase from ISPs to guarantee that their co...

By Bob Gourley We are part of the Google Glass Explorer program and have enjoyed being able to use Glass to help think through some of the potential of this new category of technology. After spending time with this I believe Google Glass will be a success in the market. I can’t say that every [&he...

“A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a 20-year-old British citizen on charges related to attacks by the LulzSec hacking group on the Fox and PBS television networks and Sonys film and TV studio, authorities said on Wednesday. Ryan Cleary, who is already jailed in the United Kingdo...

The Army Corps of Engineers’ Los Angeles district became one of the first Defense Department offices to go through a Command Cyber Readiness Inspection. And Bob Kazimer, the director of corporate information and chief information of the Army Corps of Engineers, expects DoD’s Cyber Comma...

A Phoenix man alleged to be a member of the LulzSec hacking group was arrested by the FBI on charges he broke into Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.’s computer systems in May and June. Cody Kretsinger was arrested yesterday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in an e-mailed statement. Kre...

via Tampa Bay Online In March of this year, a large Southern California water system tested the effectiveness of its cyber defenses by hiring a cybersecurity team to try to hack its network, something called penetration testing. To official dismay, the team was able to seize control of the computers...

via Zacks.com Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC – Analyst Report) has received a $19 million contract to enhance and maintain the Joint Mission Planning System (“JMPS”) Framework from the U.S. Air Force. The delivery order was awarded under the Mission Planning Enterprise Contract ...

via Wall Street Journal Regina Dugan, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, gave a peek inside the top-secret organization on Wednesday at the D9: All Things Digital Conference — but only a small peek. DARPA, founded in the late 1950s, commissions advanced resear...